KELT-18b
Giant exoplanet in the constellation Ursa Major
KELT-18b is a hot Jupiter orbiting the F-type main sequence star KELT-18 approximately 1,058 light years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Ursa Major.[3] The planet was discovered using the transit method, and was announced in June 2017.
Discovery
KELT-18b was discovered in 2017 by scientists using the KELTNorth telescope at the Winer Observatory. The paper states that this planet is the most "inflated" of its type due to its low mass, density, and high radius.
Properties
KELT-18b has 1.18 times Jupiter's mass, and is 57% larger than Jupiter. Despite the high mass, its density is lower than Saturn's, and has a high equilibrium temperature of 2,085 K due to orbiting close to a hot star. The planet orbits at a distance 10 times closer than Mercury's in almost 3 days.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h McLeod, Kim K.; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Oelkers, Ryan J.; Collins, Karen A.; Bieryla, Allyson; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Gaudi, B. Scott; Penev, Kaloyan; Stevens, Daniel J.; et al. (1 June 2017). "KELT-18b: Puffy Planet, Hot Host, Probably Perturbed". The Astronomical Journal. 153 (6): 263. arXiv:1702.01657. Bibcode:2017AJ....153..263M. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa6d5d. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 54667386.
- ^ a b c Maciejewski, G. (1 September 2020). "Search for Planets in Hot Jupiter Systems with Multi-Sector TESS Photometry. I. No Companions in Planetary Systems KELT-18, KELT-23, KELT-24, Qatar-8, WASP-62, WASP-100, WASP-119, and WASP-126". Acta Astronomica. 70 (3): 181–202. arXiv:2010.11977. Bibcode:2020AcA....70..181M. doi:10.32023/0001-5237/70.3.2. ISSN 0001-5237. S2CID 225061977.
- ^ Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
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